Download or read book A Modular Rewriting Approach to Language Design Evolution and Analysis written by Mark A. Hills and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software is becoming a pervasive presence in our lives, powering computing systems in the home, in businesses, and in safety-critical settings. In response, languages are being defined with support for new domains and complex computational abstractions. The need for formal techniques to help better understand the languages we use, correctly design new language abstractions, and reason about the behavior and correctness of programs is now more urgent then ever. In this dissertation we focus on research in programming language semantics and program analysis, aimed at building and reasoning about programming languages and applications. In language semantics, we first show how to use formal techniques during language design, presenting definitional techniques for object-oriented languages with concurrency features, including the Beta language and a paradigmatic language called KOOL. Since reuse is important, we then present a module system for K, a formalism for language definition that takes advantage of the strengths of rewriting logic and term rewriting techniques. Although currently specific to K, parts of this module system are also aimed at other formalisms, with the goal of providing a reuse mechanism for different forms of modular semantics in the future. Finally, since performance is also important, we show techniques for improving the executable and analysis performance of rewriting logic semantics definitions, specifically focused on decisions around the representation of program values and configurations used in semantics definitions. The work on performance, with a discussion of analysis performance, provides a good bridge to the second major topic, program analysis. We present a new technique aimed at annotation-driven static analysis called policy frameworks. A policy framework consists of analysis domains, an analysis generic front-end, an analysis-generic abstract language semantics, and an abstract analysis semantics that defines the semantics of the domain and the annotation language. After illustrating the technique using SILF, a simple imperative language, we then describe a policy framework for C. To provide a real example of using this framework, we have defined a units of measurement policy for C. This policy allows both type and code annotations to be added to standard C programs, which are then used to generate modular analysis tasks checked using the CPF semantics in Maude.

Download or read book Software Language Engineering written by Anthony Sloane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Software Language Engineering, SLE 2011, held in Braga, Portugal, in July 2011. The 18 papers presented together with 4 tool/language demonstration papers were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. SLE’s foremost mission is to encourage and organize communication between communities that have traditionally looked at software languages from different, more specialized, and yet complementary perspectives. SLE emphasizes the fundamental notion of languages as opposed to any realization in specific technical spaces.

Download or read book Rewriting Logic and Its Applications written by Santiago Escobar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes selected papers from the 12th International Workshop on Rewriting Logic and Its Applications, WRLA 2020, held in Dublin, Ireland, in April 2020. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the workshop took place virtually. The 11 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions Rewriting logic is a natural model of computation and an expressive semantic framework for concurrency, parallelism, communication, and interaction. It can be used for specifying a wide range of systems and languages in various application fields.

Download or read book Formal Syntax and Semantics of Programming Languages written by Kenneth Slonneger and published by Addison-Wesley Longman. This book was released on 1995 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this book, readers with a basic grounding in discreet mathematics will be able to understand the practical applications of these difficult concepts. The book presents the typically difficult subject of "formal methods" in an informal, easy-to-follow manner. A "laboratory component" is integrated throughout the text.

Download or read book Static Analysis written by Andreas Podelski and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2018, held in Freiburg, Germany, in August 2018. The 18 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The contributions cover a variety of multi-disciplinary topics in abstract domains: program verication, bug detection, compiler optimization, program understanding, and software maintenance.

Download or read book Term Rewriting and All That written by Franz Baader and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unified and self-contained introduction to term-rewriting; suited for students or professionals.

Download or read book All About Maude A High Performance Logical Framework written by Manuel Clavel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 799 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maude is a language and system based on rewriting logic. In this comprehensive account, you’ll discover how Maude and its formal tool environment can be used in three mutually reinforcing ways: as a declarative programming language, as an executable formal specification language, and as a formal verification system. Examples used throughout the book illustrate key concepts, features, and the many practical uses of Maude.

Download or read book Handbook of Graph Grammars and Computing by Graph Transformation written by Hartmut Ehrig and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 1999 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graph grammars originated in the late 60s, motivated by considerations about pattern recognition and compiler construction. Since then, the list of areas which have interacted with the development of graph grammars has grown quite impressively. Besides the aforementioned areas, it includes software specification and development, VLSI layout schemes, database design, modeling of concurrent systems, massively parallel computer architectures, logic programming, computer animation, developmental biology, music composition, visual languages, and many others. The area of graph grammars and graph transformations generalizes formal language theory based on strings and the theory of term rewriting based on trees. As a matter of fact, within the area of graph grammars, graph transformation is considered a fundamental computation paradigm where computation includes specification, programming, and implementation. Over the last three decades, graph grammars have developed at a steady pace into a theoretically attractive and important-for-applications research field. Volume 3 of the 'indispensable Handbook of' Graph Grammars and Computing by Graph Transformations presents the research on concurrency, parallelism, and distribution -- important paradigms of modern science. The topics considered include semantics for concurrent systems, modeling of concurrency, mobile and coordinated systems, algebraic specifications, Petri nets, visual design of distributed systems, and distributed algorithms. The contributions have been written in a tutorial/survey style by the top experts.

Download or read book The Symbolic Species The Co evolution of Language and the Brain written by Terrence W. Deacon and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1998-04-17 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book Review This revolutionary book provides fresh answers to long-standing questions of human origins and consciousness. Drawing on his breakthrough research in comparative neuroscience, Terrence Deacon offers a wealth of insights into the significance of symbolic thinking: from the co-evolutionary exchange between language and brains over two million years of hominid evolution to the ethical repercussions that followed man's newfound access to other people's thoughts and emotions. Informing these insights is a new understanding of how Darwinian processes underlie the brain's development and function as well as its evolution. In contrast to much contemporary neuroscience that treats the brain as no more or less than a computer, Deacon provides a new clarity of vision into the mechanism of mind. It injects a renewed sense of adventure into the experience of being human.

Download or read book Semantics Engineering with PLT Redex written by Matthias Felleisen and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009-07-10 with total page 515 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive presentation of reduction semantics in one volume, and the first tool set for such forms of semantics. This text is the first comprehensive presentation of reduction semantics in one volume; it also introduces the first reliable and easy-to-use tool set for such forms of semantics. Software engineers have long known that automatic tool support is critical for rapid prototyping and modeling, and this book is addressed to the working semantics engineer (graduate student or professional language designer). The book comes with a prototyping tool suite to develop, explore, test, debug, and publish semantic models of programming languages. With PLT Redex, semanticists can formulate models as grammars and reduction models on their computers with the ease of paper and pencil. The text first presents a framework for the formulation of language models, focusing on equational calculi and abstract machines, then introduces PLT Redex, a suite of software tools for expressing these models as PLT Redex models. Finally, experts describe a range of models formulated in Redex. PLT Redex comes with the PLT Scheme implementation, available free at http://www.plt-scheme.org/. Readers can download the software and experiment with Redex as they work their way through the book.

Download or read book Aspect Oriented Model Driven Software Product Lines written by Awais Rashid and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Software product lines provide a systematic means of managing variability in a suite of products. They have many benefits but there are three major barriers that can prevent them from reaching their full potential. First, there is the challenge of scale: a large number of variants may exist in a product line context and the number of interrelationships and dependencies can rise exponentially. Second, variations tend to be systemic by nature in that they affect the whole architecture of the software product line. Third, software product lines often serve different business contexts, each with its own intricacies and complexities. The AMPLE (http://www.ample-project.net/) approach tackles these three challenges by combining advances in aspect-oriented software development and model-driven engineering. The full suite of methods and tools that constitute this approach are discussed in detail in this edited volume and illustrated using three real-world industrial case studies.

Download or read book ECOOP Object Oriented Programming written by Erik Ernst and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-13 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, ECOOP 2007, held in Berlin, Germany in July/August 2007. The 25 revised full papers, presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 135 final submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on types, runtime implementation, empirical studies, programs and predicates, language design, inheritance and derivation, aspects, as well as language about language.

Download or read book Term Rewriting Systems written by Terese and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-20 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Term rewriting systems developed out of mathematical logic and are an important part of theoretical computer science. They consist of sequences of discrete transformation steps where one term is replaced with another and have applications in many areas, from functional programming to automatic theorem proving and computer algebra. This 2003 book starts at an elementary level with the earlier chapters providing a foundation for the rest of the work. Much of the advanced material appeared here for the first time in book form. Subjects treated include orthogonality, termination, completion, lambda calculus, higher-order rewriting, infinitary rewriting and term graph rewriting. Many exercises are included with selected solutions provided on the web. A comprehensive bibliography makes this book ideal both for teaching and research. A chapter is included presenting applications of term rewriting systems, with many pointers to actual implementations.

Download or read book Artificial Life IV written by Rodney Allen Brooks and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together contributions to the Fourth Artificial Life Workshop, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the summer of 1994.

Download or read book Real Time Systems Design and Analysis written by Phillip A. Laplante and published by Wiley-IEEE Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "IEEE Press is pleased to bring you this Second Edition of Phillip A. Laplante's best-selling and widely-acclaimed practical guide to building real-time systems. This book is essential for improved system designs, faster computation, better insights, and ultimate cost savings. Unlike any other book in the field, REAL-TIME SYSTEMS DESIGN AND ANALYSIS provides a holistic, systems-based approach that is devised to help engineers write problem-solving software. Laplante's no-nonsense guide to real-time system design features practical coverage of: Related technologies and their histories Time-saving tips * Hands-on instructions Pascal code Insights into decreasing ramp-up times and more!"

Download or read book Software Design X Rays written by Adam Tornhill and published by Pragmatic Bookshelf. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you working on a codebase where cost overruns, death marches, and heroic fights with legacy code monsters are the norm? Battle these adversaries with novel ways to identify and prioritize technical debt, based on behavioral data from how developers work with code. And that's just for starters. Because good code involves social design, as well as technical design, you can find surprising dependencies between people and code to resolve coordination bottlenecks among teams. Best of all, the techniques build on behavioral data that you already have: your version-control system. Join the fight for better code! Use statistics and data science to uncover both problematic code and the behavioral patterns of the developers who build your software. This combination gives you insights you can't get from the code alone. Use these insights to prioritize refactoring needs, measure their effect, find implicit dependencies between different modules, and automatically create knowledge maps of your system based on actual code contributions. In a radical, much-needed change from common practice, guide organizational decisions with objective data by measuring how well your development teams align with the software architecture. Discover a comprehensive set of practical analysis techniques based on version-control data, where each point is illustrated with a case study from a real-world codebase. Because the techniques are language neutral, you can apply them to your own code no matter what programming language you use. Guide organizational decisions with objective data by measuring how well your development teams align with the software architecture. Apply research findings from social psychology to software development, ensuring you get the tools you need to coach your organization towards better code. If you're an experienced programmer, software architect, or technical manager, you'll get a new perspective that will change how you work with code. What You Need: You don't have to install anything to follow along in the book. TThe case studies in the book use well-known open source projects hosted on GitHub. You'll use CodeScene, a free software analysis tool for open source projects, for the case studies. We also discuss alternative tooling options where they exist.

Download or read book Introduction to Compilers and Language Design written by Douglas Thain and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compiler translates a program written in a high level language into a program written in a lower level language. For students of computer science, building a compiler from scratch is a rite of passage: a challenging and fun project that offers insight into many different aspects of computer science, some deeply theoretical, and others highly practical. This book offers a one semester introduction into compiler construction, enabling the reader to build a simple compiler that accepts a C-like language and translates it into working X86 or ARM assembly language. It is most suitable for undergraduate students who have some experience programming in C, and have taken courses in data structures and computer architecture.